As actresses continue to share their stories of sexual assault in Hollywood, Laura Dern said she once felt like “one of the lucky ones.”

After being honored Monday night at Elle’s Women in Hollywood Celebration, the “Big Little Lies” actress opened up about her experience during an appearance on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show.”

“A very interesting thing happened this morning, which was I woke up and I realized that in that space, I talked about how I was one of the lucky ones because I was raised by actors who told me their stories and told me what to look out for, and I realized that I was still justifying behavior,” Dern, 50, said Wednesday. “It was my mom who said, ‘No, no, no, Laura. That was sexual assault. That was harassment, that was assault. No, you were 14 then.'”

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Dern also applauded those who shared their stories of sexual assault and harassment in Hollywood, specifically her co-star Reese Witherspoon, for “being honest and direct.”

“And there was no one there who didn’t say they had the experience,” Dern said of the Elle event. “The most exciting part of it is, in moving forward, we talked about a forming of a commission, which Kathy [longtime producer Kathleen] Kennedy presented, to have a place where you can feel safe, even anonymously, to reach out and say, ‘There’s an abuse of power here, and something is not OK.'”

“I wish I could tell you that was an isolated incident in my career, but sadly it wasn’t,” she said. “I’ve had multiple experiences of harassment and sexual assault and I don’t speak about them very often.”